The Buckle: Layne Kalbfleisch

The Buckle is the third blog in a series of articles from the 14th edition of the SeedBroadcast agri-culture Journal.  Due to the rapidly changing and challenging times of COVID19 we have postponed the printing of this issue until later in the year but hope that you can access this poignant and timely edition on line and past issues here. 

Thank you so much Layne for your contribution.

The Buckle

Layne Kalbfleisch

February 9, 2020

I’m a braided Indian

A Woodlands Indian

Ojibway

Living among Tewa

Saying Keresan words

Creator hears my prayers

Three names for Grandmother

Three names for Thank You

Howpa Hanu!

Cornmeal in my right hand

Tobacco in my left

Heya Hey!

My Grandmother was a Celtic knot

Scot Ojibway

Who was that woman at the Newberry Hotel?

Coyote sounds in the heart labyrinth

Christmas Day

An abandoned stable

How perfect

This is my home

The old ones told me

The Piedra Lumbre has a space

Between mesas

Orphan

Montosa

Kitchen

And Chimney Rock

Blessed Yucca

How did Gibson Gene know?

Cerro Pedernal  in the hypothetical middle

The Weaver

Spider Woman

Changing Woman

That’s what I hear

But like an ellipsis

It’s the space between

The omission

What’s not said

Ravens help.

Layne Kalbfleisch, M.Ed., Ph.D., is an educational psychologist, teacher and cognitive neuroscientist who studies the relationship between talent and disability and supports problem-solving and ingenuity across life.  She is the founder and CEO of 2E Consults ™ LLC, a practice that serves families and children, and organizations that support families and children in New Mexico, Virginia, and across the US.  She teaches in the education department at Northern New Mexico College in Española, New Mexico, and lives in Abiquiu, in view of the Cerro Pedernal.  She is from Boweting, Michigan, and a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of the Ojibway.